, 1887-10-21
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

throughout the Clty.
Mrs George Masten entertained a party
of her friends last evening.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 500, the minimum 90.
There was a large sale of seats for Mag
gle Mitchell's first night at Rhodes &
Troxells yesterday.
The new double three story brick build
ing of John b. Thomas. opposite the post
office, is rapidly assuming shape.
Two females were fined s13 each yes
terday for creating a disturbance in a
business block the previous evening.
Dockstadter's MINISTRIES and Neil Bur
CESS, both excellent attractions. will ap
pear at the opera house in the near
future.
1t is said hat the Simmons house.
which has had SO many different proprie
tors in the past few years. will soon change
hands once more.
A mighty hunter presented four bear
scalps at the county clerk Office yesterday
and received the S. bounty offered for the
destruction of each bruln.
1t is said that there is a well estab-
lished thieves fence in this city where
light fingered evil doors readily and profit
ably dispose of their plumber.
Pete Bergersen beat this season s record
on duck shooting yesterday morning. He
bagged twenty three large. fat mallards,
red heads and teal before breakfast.
The Pacific Express company's odd
boss" sale takes place to .morrow after
noon in the Seventeenth street building
formerly occupied by Jim j. Kelley.
The force at the capitol building is being
increased daily, The contractors are now
certain that the edifice will be completed
long before the date set for the meeting of
the tenth legislative assembly.
Maggie Mitchell, one of the leading
American soubrettes, will appear at the
opera house to night in her new play,
Maggie, the Midget. Her support is said
to be excellent.
1t is said that camp followers are selling
tobacco to Cheyenne 4 Burlington graders
without a license. The matter will be
investigated by the proper officials and the
guilty parties punished.
Rosa Hughes VS.. Adolph Hughes is the
title of the latest divorce case instituted in
this district. The plaintiff alleges that
Mr.. Hughes, in addition to drinking ex-
cessively, fails to support her properly.
Members of the Y. NJ. c. A. propose
organizing a. debating society for the
amusement and instruction of young men
during the long winter evenings. This is
a good idea. The society or school should
be organized at once.
The team attached to Hord Bros. ranch
wagon broke from a hitching post yester-
day morning and ran at terrific speed to
ward Lake Minnehaha on Seventeenth
street. Beyond wrecking the vehicle but
little damage was inflicted.
Less than a quorum of councilmen
assembled at the city hall last evening to
attend the adjourned meeting of the body
to which they belong. In consequence no
business was transacted. The aldermen
will convene again on the next regular
meeting night.
The oil land contest of the United States
vs.. Samuel E. Rogers, of Omaha, will be
again taken up soon after Receiver Gar
rard returns from the Fast. Attorney for
defendant recently filed his argument in
the land Office. This suit was instituted
upon information furnished by Special
Agent Sanborn.
1t took a lightning calculator to keep
track of trains at the depot last evening.
The first section of the Omaha train was
on time and was soon followed by the
first section of the Denver train. Both
second sections were from thirty minutes
to three hours late. The passengers be
came excited and insisted on entering cars
In which they had no business, while the
trainmen cursed and redoubled their
efforts to right affairs.